Women's Rights
The term "women's rights" emerged in connection with the feminist movement to focus attention on the unequal treatment of women in the public sphere. Women d...
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5a Changing Society
In a book written just a few years after the end of the 1920s titled Only Yesterday: An Informal History of the 1920s, Frederick Lewis Allen noted that this decade had involved a &...
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Sex and Gender
Timeline
1830–1899 ∼ Domesticity and Morality
Cult of Domesticity relegates women to homemaking (1830–1880) / Seneca Falls, First Women’s Rights Convention, h...
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In the beginning of the twentieth century, women had no rights at all. They were not allowed to vote or hold in a political office. Married women had no rights to their property or children since t...
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Today most women have gained legal rights throughout the world. Women have had to go thought some hard times to get though discrimination. Since the early times women have been viewed as inferior a...
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What is a feminist? Are feminist fuzzy-hair-legged lesbian women who all hate men? Or, are they just normal everyday women who believe that women deserve to have the same treatment as men? What do ...
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History has seen many changes in the views of men, and one of these changes has been the status and roles of women. Only in the last hundred years have women been seen rightfully as equals to men. His...
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Regardless of location, revolutions have always had an effect on women's role in society and on themselves as well. Some Revolutions gave women more opportunities while others restricted them to domes...
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Legal Studies
Area of Study: Women
a) In what ways has the role of women in society changed over the last 150 years"
The role of women has changed immensely and rapidly over the last 150 years. Sin...
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Many people would consider Mary Wollstonecraft the "mother of feminism" and her piece on the Right of Woman was the beginning of a lot of later arguments and struggles for woman equality. Many of wome...
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Women's Rights
A Changing Society
Sex and Gender
